Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Agonism, Restitution & Repair

Book Overview

The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict.

This volume asks how many of the popular conclusions reached by transitional justice studies fall short, or worse, unwittingly perpetuate the very injustices they aim to suture. Though...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041571365X
• ISBN13: 9780415713658
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.1"